Machine for manufacturing featherbone blade.



I W. WEBSTER.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING FEATHERBONE BLADE.

- APPLICATION FILED OCT. 31, 1906.

Patented Jan. 24, 1911.

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WILLIAM WEBSTER, OF LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN-MENTS, TO WAR-BEN FEATHERBONE COMPANY OF MICHIGAN, OF THREE OAKS,MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING FEATHERBONE BLADE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Papented Jan. 24, 1911.

Application filed October 31, 1906. Serial No. 341,505.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM lVEBsTnR, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at the city of London, Province of Ontario, Dominionof Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinesfor Manufacturing Featherbone Blade, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved machine for manufacturingfeatherbone blade automatically from quills without reducing the quillsto fiber, it being merely necessary to feed the quills into the machinewhen they will be taken up and acted upon automatically and deliveredonto a spool or reel in the form of flat blades.

This invention is related to the invention of my U. S. Patent No.836,821, of Nov. 20, 1906.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine which willautomatically manufacture flat blades from quills without fibering thequill substance.

Further objects, and objects relating to structural details, willdefinitely appear from the detailed description to follow.

A structure embodying the features of my invention is fully described inthe following specification.

The invention is clearly defined and pointed out in the claims.

A structure embodying the features of my invention is clearlyillustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of thisspecification, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the front por tion of my improved machine,showing the manner of splitting, depithing and advancing the portions ofthe split quills into the proper relation for forming and retaining themin a blade. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional elevation on the irregular line22 of Fig. 1, showing details of construction. 3 is a detail sectionalplan of the rear half of my machine, where the portions of the quillsare bound and secured together in the form of a blade and showing itsconnection to the fore part, which appears in Fig. 1. Fig. a is a detailplan View, partly in section, of the feeding device, showing the chute15 beyond the depither where the strips of the quill are delivered inthe proper overlapping relation. Fig. 5is a detail sectional view on theirregular line 55 of Fig. l, showing the sloping character of the upperwall of the chute guide 15. Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 66 ofFig. 1, showing the relation assumed by the quill strips 83. Fig. 7 is adetail cross sectional view on line 77 of Fig. 4, showing the manner inwhich the strips 33 take a position exactly back of each other to bedelivered forwardly between the feed rolls and be made into the blade.

In the drawing, the sectional views are taken looking in the directionof the little arrows at the ends of the section lines, and similarreference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Considering the numbered parts of the drawing, all of the 'parts of myimproved machine are supported on the bed or base 1; see Figs. 1 and 2.These parts consist of a quill feeding device, which is made up of apair of feed rolls 7 and 9, which embrace the quills and drive themforward. These rolls are supported on the vertical shafts 6 and 8respectively, which are driven by suitable means not here illustrated.

The quills are placed in a stack between upright pins 33 and 3-8 whichare on the auxiliary plate, which plate is supported by suitable meanson the block or bed 1. The quills are delivered by the feed rolls 7 and9 to a pair of feed rolls 1010 which deliver them against a splittingknife 11. This splitting knife. 11 divides the quills into halves,delivering the back half or portion to the left hand side and the bellyportion of the quill to the righthand side, where these halves or partsare embraced-by knurled rolls 12-12 and delivered in close proximity tothe rotary depithing cutters 1813. These clepithing cutters out off thepith from the parts of the quill and then one half is delivered to therighthand guide chute 15 and the other half is delivered through theelongated curved guide 15. Thence it is seized by a pair of rollers 16and delivered to the guide 17. The longer course of this portion of thequill through the guides causes the same to lap onto that portion thatwas delivered directly so that the joint is broken between the backs andthe bellies of the quills, when they are delivered to the feed rolls 18.However, it is desirable still further to overlap and add to the quillsubstance of the blade and that is accomplished by providing the screwfeed, consisting of right and left hand screws, above the rollers 7 and9, which positively carries the quills down and delivers them forwardone above the other and in an offset relation. The quills advancesuccessively about three inches behind each other, one above the other,as they enter the feed rollsand pass against the splitting knife. Theguides 15 are quite open, as will be seen in Fig. 4, and the top wallsthereof taper downwardly, and the points of the quill deliver againstrather an abrupt curve, so that, as the quill advances around thiscurve, its natural elasticity separates it from the wall of the guidesomewhat, so that the quill strip just back of it has an opportunity toenter, point first, when its straight end protrudes between the curvedportion of the quill and the wall of the guide at that point, and as theupper wall or roof of the guide, so to speak, slopes downwardly, thelast quill to enter is carried down back of the next one in the machine,the relation of the quill pieces 3333 for the successive posit-ions,being clearly indicated in Fig. 6. In this illustration the quill isjust entering the space back of the quill just in advance of it, and inFig. 7 the quill strips have come to the same elevation and overlap eachother. The quills thus overlapped, with joints broken between thesuccessive quills and between the back and bellies, are advanced in fiatform by the rollers 18 through the guide chute 19. As they pass from theguide chute 19, they are taken up by the rolls 21 and delivered to the.winding mechanism, which has a fixed core 23 with a rectangular slottherethrough to accommodate the blade.

A spool 27 is carrled on a revolving sleeve 26, which revolving sleevealso carries a flier arm 28 to deliver the wrapping thread around theblade. This guide arm is counterbalanced by the weight 25 and the wholeis driven by the grooved pulley 24L. Feed rolls 30 compress the bladeand deliver it from this winder to a sewing machine 31, which puts oneor more rows of longitudinal stitches through the same, when the bladeis wound upon the reel 32. These last-named devices are supported on thevertical plate 20, by brackets 22, 22, 22, 22, so that the sewingmachine reciprocates its needle in a horizontal rather than in avertical position.

I have illustrated my improved featherbone blade machine in detail andbelieve the parts are necessary and advantageous.-

Modifications of the details will, no doubt, suggest themselves topersons familiar with. the art to which my invention pertains. I haveshown the same feed device that I have shown in conjunction with othermachines, for which I am filing applications concurrent herewith, butwould remark that the feed device could be modified or changed, althoughthe matter of having the quills and their backs. and bellies overlap isvery desirable and is effectively accomplished by the improved feeddevice which I here show.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, thecombination of a suitable feed device which supports the quills instacks and feeds them successively in overlapping relation; feed rollsfor advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing theminto halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; rotary depithingcutters beyond said feed rolls for removing the pith; abruptly curvedchutes for receiving said quills successively, said chutes havingdownwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quillstrip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quillstrip, one of said chutes being quills successively in overlappingrelation;

feed rolls' for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife fordividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; rotarydepithing cutters beyond said feed rolls for removing the pith; abruptlycurved chutes for receiving said quills successively, said chutes havingdownwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quillstrip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quillstrip, one of said chutes being longer and recurved to carry the backsand bellies of the quills into overlapping relation; feed rolls foradvancing the strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core havinga rectangular passage to receive the said strips; a sewing machinearranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, all co-actingsubstantially as described and for the purpose specified.

3. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, thecombination of a suitable feed device which feeds the quillssuccessively in overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing thequills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them. into halves; feedrolls for gripping the halves; rotary depithing cutters beyond said feedrolls for removing the pith; guiding means to guide the flat quillstrips into overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the flatstrips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangularpassage to receive the said flat strips; a sewing machine arranged tostitch through the blade after it is wound, all co-act-ing substantiallyas described and for the purpose specified.

l. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, thecombination of a suitable feed device which supports the quills instacks and feeds them successively in overlapping relation; feed rollsfor advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing theminto halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; abruptly curved chutesfor receiving said fiat quill strips successively, said chutes havingdownwardly sloping tops or roofs whereby the point of the last quillstrip entering the chute will descend back of the next preceding quillstrip, one of said chutes being longer and recurved to carry the backsand bellies of the quills into overlapping relation; feed rolls foradvancing the flat strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixed corehaving a rectangular passage to receive the said strips; a sewingmachine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wouno, allco-acting substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

5. In a machine for manufacturing 'l'eatlr erbone blade from quills, thecombination of a suitable feed device which feeds the quillssuccessively in overlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing thequills forwardly; a splitting knife for dividing them into halves; feedrolls for gripping the halves; abruptly curved chutes for receiving saidquills successively, said chutes having downwardly sloping tops or roofswhereby the point of the last quill strip entering the chute willdescend back of the next preceding quill strip, one of said chutes beinglonger and recurved to carry the backs and bellies of the quills intooverlapping relation; feed rolls for advancing the strips thusoverlapped; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passage toreceive the said. strips; and a sewing ma chine arranged to stitchthrough the blade after it is wound, all co-acting substantially asdescribed and for the purpose specilied.

6. In a machine for manufacturing featherbone blade from quills, thecombination of a suitable feed device which feeds the quillssuccessively in overlapping relation;

feed rolls for advancing the quills forwardly; a splitting knife fordividing them into halves; feed rolls for gripping the halves; guidingmeans to guide the Hat quill strips into overlapping relation; feedrolls for advancing the strips thus overlapped; a winder with a fixedcore having a rectangular passage to receive the said strips; and asewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound,all coacting substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

7. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills,the combination of suitable devices for splitting the quills intostrips; guiding means to guide the quill strips into overlappingrelation; :1 winder with a fixed core having a rectangular passagearranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind a wrappingthread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machine arrangedto stitch through the blade after it is wound, coacting for the purposespecified.

8. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills thecombination of suitable devices for splitting the quills into strips;guiding means to guide the flat strips into overlapping relation; awinder arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind awrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machinearranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, co-acting forthe purpose specified.

9. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade, thecombination of suitable devices for splitting the quills into strips;guiding means to guide the flat quill strips into overlapping relation;and a winder arranged to automatically receive the said strips and winda wrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade, c0- acting for thepurpose specified.

10. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills,the combination of guiding means to guide flat quill strips intooverlapping relation; a winder with a fixed core having a rectangularpassage arranged to automatically receive the said strips and wind awrapping thread thereon and form them into a blade; and a sewing machinearranged to stitch through the blade after it is wound, co-acting forthe purpose specified.

11. In a machine for the manufacture of featherbone blade from quills,the combination of guiding means to guide flat quill, strips intooverlapping relation; a winder arranged to automatically receive thesaid strips and wind a wrapping thread thereon and form them into ablade; and a sewing machine arranged to stitch through the blade afterit is wound, co-acting for the purpose specified.

12. In a machine for the manufacture of In Witness W11er "t, I havehereunto set featherbone blade from qu111s,the combmamy hand and seal 1nthe presence of two 10 111011 of guldlng means to gulde flat qulllwltnesses.

stri as into overla ing relation' and a I 5 Win der arranged tautolnaticallg receive VILLIAM VVEBSTER' the said strips and Wind aWrapping thread Vitnesses: thereon and form them into a blade, 00- R. G.FISHER, acting for the purpose specified. D. CONSTABLE.

